Khoa’s blog post about never blogging anymore thanks to Facebook status updates made me realize it was finally time to admit that Twitter has done the same to my own blogging habits. I’ve always had a tough time writing anything in long-form. And Stephen Fry’s recent post about how tough writing is for writers has me convinced it will never get any better.

But microblogging via Twitter and Tumblr seems to fulfill most of my information sharing and self-expression needs. So my main website, esthernam.com, will consist of just that. I might add my flickr account eventually, but that’s about as far as I’m going to go.

There! That feels much better.

Finally disabled the Snap! Preview thing on this blog. How annoying was that?

To make up for it, I added a Twitter RSS feed. This means I can blog less, so everyone wins!

If Web 2.0 Applied to Real Life
Originally uploaded by darthservo.

I faved this when I was just getting into folksonomies and the wisdom of crowds, Web 2.0 craziness, and people were going completely nutso with the tags. *Every* web app had them, including us, whether or not they made any sense.

Yeah, that got old kinda quick.

I don’t love this photo that much anymore, but I’ll keep it in my faves just as a reminder of how crazy I was about folksonomies. I still believe in the idea behind this whole semantic web thing, but know it’s gonna be awhile longer before stuff like this will actually be of any use to anyone. And in the meantime, we’ll just poke fun at it. I mean, it is kinda funny, in a smiley-face way, if not wholly in a ha-ha way.

Eep, I’m already tired of this blogging-what-I-read everyday! It’s getting pretty dull, and I think I need to go back to the eye doctor, because I’m starting to feel the eyestrain from reading again (the last time I felt that was right before I found out I had very mild astigmatism).

But I’ve been reasonably busy doing other stuff: everyone’s birthdays seem to be in August, so there’s much shopping and lunch-eating, coffee-drinking, etc. Plus the whole, “getting ready for school to begin” business. Not to mention more relatives on their way to pay (mercifully) short visits.

And, my grandmother had to get a pacemaker installed so she was in hospital over the weekend. Actually, the heart valves she’d had put in a few years ago started leaking, but the pacemaker seems to be doing a good enough job taking care of it that she didn’t have to go into deep surgery to get replacement valves. But we had to cancel our Tokyo trip, just in case.

I finished up my GRE class last week, so I only have to tutor this one kid a few more times, and then it’s on to the Westwood branch of my company! Until then, I plan to enjoy this short break, watching videos like these ri-DONK-ulous bunnies, and this startled panda, and Colbert/Stewart’s presentation at the Emmys. I think my favorite part of that video is seeing Jeffrey Tambor’s reaction to the Manilow line. George Sr. loves the Colbert!

Also, “Kneel before your god, Babylon!”

I’m linking to Binary Moon, creator of the Regulus theme which is the current theme for my blog. I chose Regulus because it’s more customizable than the other themes currently offered by Wordpress.com.

I don’t lurve the boxy page links at the top, but I can certainly live with them if it means I can have my little bee in the header!

Thanks, Binary Moon, for giving us poor non-self-hosting bloggers more options!